About the journal

The scientific collected papers “Optoelectronics and Semiconductor Technology” is a specialized scientific and technical publication whose history is directly connected with the formation and development of optoelectronics as one of the important areas of modern semiconductor science, electronics, and information-measuring technology.

The establishment of the collected papers was driven by an understanding of the special importance of optoelectronics for scientific and technological progress, the development of new principles for the conversion, transmission, detection, and processing of information using electromagnetic radiation, as well as by the need to unite specialists in the fields of semiconductor physics, photoelectricity, microelectronics, optical and electronic functional devices.

As early as the 1960s, Academician Serhii Vasylovych Svechnikov, deeply understanding the prospects of optoelectronics and its role in forming new scientific and technical areas, initiated the creation of a specialized periodical publication intended to consolidate scientists, engineers, and developers around the key ideas, methods, and applied tasks of this field. Owing to this initiative, in 1966 the scientific and technical collected papers “Semiconductor Technology and Microelectronics” was launched under the original title “Poluprovodnikovaya Tekhnika i Mikroelektronika”, becoming one of the first specialized publications of this profile in the former USSR.

Already in the first issue of the collected papers, Serhii Vasylovych Svechnikov published the article “Photoelectric Functional Converters as a Promising Direction of Semiconductor Electronics (Optoelectronics)” — originally, “Fotoelektricheskie Funktsionalnye Preobrazovateli kak Perspektivnoe Napravlenie Poluprovodnikovoi Elektroniki (Optoelektronika)” — in which one of the first systematic generalizations of optoelectronics as a promising direction of semiconductor electronics was presented. This work was of fundamental importance for the scientific understanding of optoelectronics not merely as a set of separate photoelectric phenomena or devices, but as an integrated field combining semiconductor physics, optics, electronics, materials science, circuit engineering, and the functional conversion of information signals.

In 1982, the collected papers was renamed and received the title “Optoelectronics and Semiconductor Technology” — originally, “Optoelektronika i Poluprovodnikovaya Tekhnika” — which reflected the expansion of its scientific scope and the growing role of optoelectronics in the structure of modern research. Subsequently, the publication became an important scientific platform for publishing the results of fundamental and applied research in optoelectronics, semiconductor physics and technology, photoelectric and photonic converters, sensorics, information-measuring systems, micro- and nanoelectronics, LED and laser technologies, as well as related interdisciplinary fields.

For many years, Serhii Vasylovych Svechnikov served as the permanent Editor-in-Chief of these publications. His scientific vision, organizational talent, and principled commitment to a high level of scientific publications determined the authority of the collected papers, its thematic orientation, and its role in the development of the Ukrainian and international scientific school of optoelectronics. For the Editorial Board, authors, and readers, his figure remains a symbol of scientific consistency, dedication, and a profound understanding of the prospects of semiconductor science.

Today, the scientific collected papers “Optoelectronics and Semiconductor Technology” continues the traditions established by its founders while focusing on modern requirements for scientific professional publications. The journal publishes original research articles, review papers, and materials addressing current problems of optoelectronics, semiconductor technology, photonics, sensorics, information technologies, electronic components, and functional materials.

The main objective of the journal is to promote scientific communication among researchers, engineers, lecturers, postgraduate students, and specialists in high-technology fields, as well as to disseminate research results of scientific, applied, and innovative significance. The publication seeks to maintain high standards of academic integrity, peer review, editorial responsibility, and quality of scientific presentation.

The journal preserves historical continuity with the first specialized collected papers founded in 1966 and develops its scientific mission under modern conditions, when optoelectronics, photonics, semiconductor materials, and information-measuring technologies play a key role in the creation of new devices, communication systems, sensor platforms, energy-efficient technologies, information-processing tools, and intelligent technical systems.